Utah's first African-American news anchor

10/15/13 1:28 PM EDT

Nadia Crow, a 27-year-old Midwestern native, joined Salt Lake City's KTVX-Channel 4 this year as a news anchor -- the first African-American news anchor in the history of the state of Utah, according to the Salt Lake Tribune.

Crow co-anchors the 4 p.m. newscast on KTVX, the local ABC affiliate, and anchors the 10-minute 9 p.m. weeknight newscast on sister station KUCW-Ch. 30.

"It’s rather remarkable that it took until the year 2013 for that to happen," the Trib notes. Says Crow: "You just don’t think of black people being in Utah. Whether that’s true or not, that was my image and my perception of the state."